Radioactivity

With the help of the spectrometer for alpha particles, described in the post DIY Alpha Spectrometer, we looked at some isotopes and radioactive substances. The main difficulty of the alpha spectroscopy is the preparation of the source: to obtain net lines and good resolutions it is necessary that the active …

Alpha Spectrometry is a fascinating technique because it allows you to have accurate information about the radioactive decay of heavy nuclei and about the physics of the interaction of charged particles with matter. But this is a rather difficult technique, even more difficult than gamma spectrometry. The difficulties of this technique lie …

We continue the post “PSoC Coincidence Detector – I” describing the application of the coincidence detector system for the detection of radiation produced by the decay of isotope Na22. This topic has already been addressed in the following previous post : Positron Annihilation Entangled Gamma Photons For full details about positron and entanglement …

In this post we describe an application of PSoC component having the aim to realize a high-precision coincidence detection circuit to be applied in the detection of nuclear signals. PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) is a family of microcontroller integrated circuits by Cypress Semiconductor. These chips include aCPU core and mixed-signal arrays of …

There are some electronic tubes that contain small quantities of radioactive materials to enhance the internal ionization processes. Such tubes have been used in the 20th century mostly in radar technology. Some of these tubes contain small quantities of Cesium-137, Cobalt-60, Radium-226, Krypton-85. The radioactive elements have been added to increase …